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A J.D. Power study claims that Americans now spend $47 per month, on average, for streaming services, up 24 percent from the $38 per month spent before the pandemic.

As part of its latest quarterly earnings report, Netflix announced this week that it has surpassed the 200 million active user milestone.

Apple has quietly extended its free Apple TV+ subscription offer for a second time, to July 2021, a nice gift during the pandemic.

Last week, I explained how I managed my work-related documents and other files. This week, I’m thinking about something even more important.

Roku has purchased the content previously owned by failed streaming video startup Quibi for less than $100 million and will make it available to customers for free.

Roku announced today that it surpassed the 50 million active user milestone before the end of 2020, with a total of 58.7 billion streaming hours last year.

You can add Discovery+ to the long and growing list of video streaming services that you can now pay for each and every month.

Amazon announced this week that it is purchasing award-winning podcast studio Wondery for an undisclosed sum that is likely north of $300 million.

I strongly recommend that enthusiasts not give personal technology gifts to their spouses and partners. Yes, I routinely ignore this advice myself.

After months of negotiations, AT&T and Roku today reached an agreement to bring HBO Max to the latter’s video streaming devices.

It’s going to happen: Google announced today that the Apple TV+ app is coming to Chromecast with Android TV in early 2021.

Amazon announced today that its Fire TV streaming platform now has over 50 million monthly active users (MAUs).

Flush with success, Disney+ will be raising its monthly and annual subscription prices in 2021 along with the prices of its ESPN+ and Hulu bundles.

Amazon today announced that it will soon roll out what it calls its most significant experience update for the Fire TV line of products yet.

AT&T announced today that its HBO Max streaming service saw explosive usage and engagement gains in the most recent quarter.

Apple today announced the long-rumored AirPods Max, which despite the name are not earbuds but over-the-ear headphones. They’re also ridiculously expensive.

Google announced today that users with Google Assistant-based smart speakers and displays can now control Apple Music by voice.

As I’ve written in the past, it’s next to impossible to access your own music files with Spotify, the world’s most popular music service.

After a year in which audiences stayed away from theaters because of the pandemic, Warner Bros. has opted for a bold strategy for 2021.

Our national nightmare is finally over: HBO Max, which has been conspicuously absent from Fire TV, is coming to Amazon’s streaming solutions tomorrow.

Last week, Google announced that it was discontinuing free, unlimited photo storage in its Google Photos service, enraging fans.

As part of its quarterly earnings announcement, Disney revealed that it had 73.7 million Disney+ subscribers as of October 3, 2020.

Starting in mid-2021, Google Photos will no longer offer free and unlimited storage. The good news? Existing uploads are exempt.

Roku announced today that Apple's AirPlay 2 and HomeKit are now supported on most of its modern streamers and other devices.

Because of the failure of its strategy to position Xbox One as an all-in-one entertainment device, Microsoft is taking a different tack with Xbox Series X|S.

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members can now access Disney+ for 30 days for free as part of their subscription, Microsoft says.

You may have heard that “perfect is the enemy of good,” and on that note, I’ve come up with a similar phrase for digital photography: Inconsistency is the enemy of reliable.